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At first everything went as planned: the vehicle separated from a B-52 Stratofortress high above a naval air warfare center sea range in California and decoupled from the rocket booster. But 31 seconds into the test, a problem developed with a cruiser control fin and the X-51A Waverider hypersonic vehicle plummeted into the Pacific Ocean, missing its target of […]

India is seriously contemplating to enhance the reach of its strategic missiles. The Defence Ministry is considering a proposal to develop intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) [often labelled Surya 1 or 2] capable of hitting targets 10,000 km away. At present, there is a voluntary cap on developing missiles beyond 5,000-km range and the ICBM capabilities […]

Effects Aftereffects and diplomacy involved. NOTE: If you don’t want to read the entire article the gist is given in bold to get a general idea of what this is about. BY: Nikhil Kumar This program might be the most important defence project going on right now. Reasons for coming into existence are numerous. On […]

Movies have replaced, today, all other forms of entertainment. It has far more reach than media. Here are a good collection of war based movies. POST 1900s 1. Apocalypse Now – (1979, Francis Ford Coppola, V) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, M. Brando) 2. All Quiet on the Western Front – (1930, Lewis Milestone, WWI) (Lew […]

The entire world has been eyeing on North Korea as it was trying to develop an ICBM on the pretext of its space programme which is reported to have failed. America and other civilised countries had criticized this attempt of North Korea. The list of nations that have criticized this step also contains the name […]